tissick

tissick (countable and uncountable, plural tissicks)

1. Nonstandard form of phthisic.
   • 1897, The New Review, page 120:

     “Just a bit o' a tissick 'pon the chest,” said his father, after the child had ailed two days. “He'll be better come to-morrow if you keeps en in by the fire.” But that night poor Timmy grew worse, and, after daylight had gone, fear came upon his ...

   • 1906, The Fortnightly, page 1179:

     So careless of hisself as a child. ' Tis a bit of a tissick on the lungs, I reckon.

   • 1920, Eden Phillpotts, Miser's Money, page 52:

     He's ill with a tissick in his chest — got it cutting peat, my mother says. And he must see you this very day. Cussing Duchy, he is, and damning me and other good characters.